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I made some fantastic memories and developed lifelong skills I’ll forever cherish.” Read Previous PLU announces top Military Friendly Spouse School designation Read Next PLU students and faculty collaborate on summer chemistry research COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world

kind of program and community you want in the MFA.” Rick Barot, Poet, Writer, & Educator Professor Barot is a faculty member of the program himself, and has been writing poetry for the last 30 years. When he began his writing career as an undergraduate, Professor Barot, who is Filipino, was often the only person of color in his classes. As he progressed into graduate school he wrote alongside more poets of color, but still few. In the past decade, Barot has witnessed an “explosion of participating

around the Allgäu region (Bavaria).Edinburgh, Scotland May 26-27thDeparture and long-awaited arrival in Scotland.  Our trip has gotten off to a fabulous start.  After a long cross-country and transatlantic flight, a tired slog through the Frankfurt Airport involving a long walk, multiple bus rides, and some high humidity we have made it to Scotland. The weather is working out in our favor, what was anticipated to be grey and somewhat rainy has been only partially cloudy with a good amount of fairly

general openness to updates and a high level of disdain for this particular update, these reviews largely sidestep the question that so preoccupies Dames and the books he reviews: what happens when we deprettify Austen? What happens when we take the prettifications for granted and work from there? A new adaptation of a well-known novel could have been an occasion for thinking more deeply about how the particulars of the source text and of the adaptation mutually illuminate one another. This would mean

family. As musicians, we spend most of our time in our isolated world of personal practice and rehearsals. To make connections with this piece to the greater campus community is all the more special since that is really what the liberal arts, and Lutheran Higher Education, is all about.” Tickets to the April 23 concert can be purchased online, over the phone (253-535-7411) and at the door: $8 general admission, $5 senior citizen and alumni, free for PLU & 18 and younger. The Lyric Brass Quintet is

contributions of student leaders who have excelled academically and made a difference through their leadership and service at PLU and in their communities. Nominated students were invited to submit a resume; then a selection committee reviewed all nominations and made award recommendations. After that, Laura Majovski, Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, confirmed the recipients. “Developing student leaders is so much at the heart of a PLU education,” Majovski said. “It is inspiring each

one day after PLU’s 11th annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, a conference that empowers attendees to use the lessons of the Holocaust to challenge prejudices, violence and other forms of dehumanization. The timing served to heighten the shock. There are no words. There are no words for our anguish, our anger and our despair when we experience this heart-wrenching news. As Rabbi and PLU partner chaplain Bruce Kadden said at a solidary event Sunday night at Temple Beth El in

,” says Provost Joanna Gregson. “We attract students who are enrolling in college with the specific goal of leveraging their education to positively impact their communities. The new criminal justice program will provide us with another excellent route to prepare our students to meet their goals and serve the public good.”  Faculty members say that the new program, which includes both a major and minor in criminal justice, grew out of a longstanding criminal justice track within the sociology major at

powerlessness through empowerment and community.” Indivisible Gig Harbor is a highly inclusive group and one of its purposes is to guide individuals through this time of political confusion. Professor Albrecht discussed the role of education in that guidance: “We have literacy events, we have candidates come in and speak, and we educate members on how to research voting records for members of Congress. It takes public action to raise awareness.”   Professor Rona Kaufman joined Indivisible Gig Harbor and

Languages’ Society comes from his fondness of learning dead languages when he was in college. Brown earned his Bachelor’s degree in German at PLU in 2010 before moving on to a graduate program at the University of Texas in Austin. There, he earned his Master’s in Germanic Linguistics in 2014 and then continued his education to receive his PhD in Germanic Studies in 2018.When Brown enrolled at PLU, he initially focused on studying German. Not long after, he met the woman who would later become his wife